FKIE_CVE-2026-31840

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-03-11 17:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:34
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to 9.6.0-alpha.2 and 8.6.28, an attacker can use a dot-notation field name in combination with the sort query parameter to inject SQL into the PostgreSQL database through an improper escaping of sub-field values in dot-notation queries. The vulnerability may also affect queries that use dot-notation field names with the distinct and where query parameters. This vulnerability only affects deployments using a PostgreSQL database. This vulnerability is fixed in 9.6.0-alpha.2 and 8.6.28.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/releases/tag/8.6.28Product, Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/releases/tag/9.6.0-alpha.2Product, Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/security/advisories/GHSA-qpr4-jrj4-6f27Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
parseplatform parse-server *
parseplatform parse-server *
parseplatform parse-server 9.6.0
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